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Thus, in 1957. when the foreign aid program was before Passman's subcommittee. Republican Dwight Eisenhower invited Passman to the White House. Ike meant to use all his great persuasiveness on Passman. But he never got a chance. No sooner had Passman entered the President's office than he launched into a long recitation, flung verbal graphs around the room, polka-dotted the President with decimal points, cascaded the room with statistics. When Passman finally left, the President turned to an aide. "Remind me," he groaned, "never to invite that fellow down here again...
...Contemporaries. Dwight Eisenhower did not just pick brains-he "sponged on genius." De Gaulle's verdict on Field Marshal Montgomery: "He's no soldier, he's an actor. But he plays so well at being a leader that he manages to identify himself with the part." De Gaulle's image of De Gaulle was most memorably expressed to a courageous colleague who protested that he needlessly endangers his life by mingling with the crowds on official tours. Answered De Gaulle: "Keep in mind one thing, sir. De Gaulle interests me only as a historic personage." While...
...Soviet Union. Quite aside from the basic problem of space communication, other appeals could be made. I used them as effectively as I could." Again, during the heated debate about the U.S. purchase of United Nations bonds, Dirksen stood with the President. "We had some faith in Dwight Eisenhower," he cried. "And I have not forfeited my faith in John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I am willing always to trust the President, because I think he has a sense of responsibility." On domestic issues, Dirksen has skillfully and successfully opposed the President whenever Kennedy played obvious partisan politics. Prime examples were...
Back home and full of bounce after a five-week tour of Western Europe was Dwight Eisenhower, 71; bouncing back nicely in a Manhattan hospital after an operation to remove a polypoid lesion from his large intestine was Herbert Hoover, 88; perennially bouncy Harry Truman, 78, was gadding about Manhattan...
...entire cast of Tom and Jerry cartoons. He was Captain Swift on TV's Popeye show. During the TV run of the Howdy Doody show, he contributed 50 different characters. For Darryl Zanuck's forthcoming The Longest Day, Swift supplied the sheared-cornflower accents of Dwight David Eisenhower. He is the man who says, "I'm a Newport smoker forever"; who tells viewers to use one dab of Brylcreem, not two; who introduced the Chinese baby who could not eat Jell-O with chopsticks...